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New Consortium Of Leading Universities Will Move Forward With Transformative, For-Credit Online Education Program

"By making for-credit online undergraduate coursework a reality for these top schools, Semester Online represents an important milestone for undergraduate education, one that will influence the wider adoption of for-credit online learning across all of higher education," said Chip Paucek, co-founder and CEO of 2U. "Semester Online demonstrates 2U's mission to help great schools go online and provide high-quality learning experiences for credit, empowering students to continue their education as they follow their ambitions, anywhere."

"All of us will be working with our respective faculty, staff and students to operationalize the program and develop guidelines for our students prior to launch next fall," said Macias. "There are further issues to resolve, however, it is tremendously exciting that this group of leading institutions has come together and is committed to moving forward the concept of Semester Online."

For more information, please visit semesteronline.org. Additional information about Semester Online courses and the application process will be available in early 2013.

About Semester Online

Semester Online is the first-of-its-kind program to offer for-credit undergraduate courses through a consortium of top-tier universities that includes
Brandeis University,
Duke University,
Emory University,
Northwestern University, The
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
University of Notre Dame,
University of Rochester,
Vanderbilt University,
Wake Forest University and
Washington University in
St. Louis. In partnership with 2U, formerly known as 2tor, Semester Online offers rigorous, online, for-credit courses to college students from anywhere in the world. For more information, please visit semesteronline.org.

About 2U, Inc.

2U, Inc., formerly known as 2tor, Inc., partners with top-tier universities to deliver rigorous, selective graduate degree and undergraduate for-credit programs online. Founded in 2008 by
John Katzman and a team of education veterans, the company provides universities with the technologies, infrastructural support and capital they need to transform their on-campus programs into high-quality, web-based programs. 2U is one of the highest-funded education technology start-ups in
the United States. 2U has partnered with prestigious colleges and research universities to deliver the following groundbreaking online programs:

USC Rossier Online: Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Arts in Teaching –TESOL and Master's of Education in Advanced Instruction from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education

MSW@USC: Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern California School of Social Work

Nursing@Georgetown: Master of Science Degree in Nursing from Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies

MBA@UNC: Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School

MPA@UNC: Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government

@WashULaw: Master of Laws (LL.M.) in U.S. Law from Washington University School of Law

MPH@GW: Master of Public Health (MPH) in International and Rural Health from the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services

Semester Online: For-credit undergraduate program through a consortium of leading universities